Seven Bridges Road is one of the more beautiful
parkways in Duluth, Minnesota, a city renowned for its parks and
boulevards. The drive travels up Occidental Boulevard from Superior
Street and across Hawk Ridge to Glenwood Avenue--a distance of
about 4 miles--and serves as the eastern terminus to Duluth's
famous hilltop boulevard, Skyline Parkway.

Winding its way through forests of pine and
birch, the lower portion of the road intertwines with Amity creek,
the western branch of the Lester River, as the waterway descends
toward Lake Superior.

Bridge
#2 on the Amity Parkway, c. 1912. One of nine stone-arch bridges
built along Samuel Snively's road, later called Seven Bridges
Road.(Wm
Overland collection)

Along the way, the parkway crosses several
beautifully crafted stone-arch bridges, all similar in design
and construction, and the reason for the road's current name.
Work on this original section of the road was begun in 1899, and
opened for use in the next year. But it would take more than three
decades before the upper connection across Hawk Ridge was finally
completed.